CVE-2026-48591
Severity CVSS v4.0:
MEDIUM
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
17/06/2026
Last modified:
22/06/2026
Description
Improper Neutralization of Script in Attributes in a Web Page vulnerability in pragdave earmark allows stored cross-site scripting via unescaped HTML attribute values.<br />
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&#39;Elixir.Earmark.Transform&#39;:_make_att1/2 in lib/earmark/transform.ex splices attribute values verbatim between two literal " bytes: [" ", name, "=\"", value, "\""]. Text nodes are routed through the existing escape function which encodes " as &quot;, but attribute values never visit that path. A markdown link whose URL or title contains a bare " closes the attribute early and lets the trailing bytes be parsed by the browser as fresh HTML attributes. For example, [click](http://example.com/?a=x" onerror="alert(1)) renders as click, executing arbitrary JavaScript in the victim&#39;s browser.<br />
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The earmark library is no longer maintained and has been retired on Hex. No patched version will be released. All releases from 1.4.1 onward are affected, and users should migrate to a maintained Markdown library such as MDEx.<br />
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This issue affects earmark from 1.4.1 onward.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
4.80
Severity 4.0
MEDIUM